Marine Mammal DCL & DE Workshop

Akoostix will participate in the Fifth International Workshop on Detection, Classification, Localization, and Density Estimation of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics in Mt. Hood Oregon from Aug 21 to Aug 25, 2011. Our researchers are involved with three presentations, developed in collaboration with DRDC scientists:

  • Bougher, B., Hood, J., and Theriault, J. , Improved Band-limited Marine Mammal Detector using Signal Excess
  • Theriault, J., Hood, J., Bougher, B., and Radcliffe, M., Sorting Out Numbers: How Many Animals are Clicking?
  • Binder, C., Hines, P., Hood, J., Passive Classification of Marine Mammal Vocalizations Using an Automatic Aural Classifier

 

Published by on Aug 21st, 2011 Posted in Conference, Technical

Maritime Acoustic Symposium

Akoostix will be participating in the Acoustic Data Analysis Centre’s Maritime Acoustic Symposium from Sep 14 to Sep 17, 2010 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our team is directly involved with three presentations, developed in collaboration with DRDC scientists, while we are supporting a number of other presentations related to autonomous sensing, marine mammal detection and environmental/target characterization:

  • Murphy, S.M., Hines, P.C., Hood, J., An Integrated Tracker and Aural Classifier for Anti-Submarine Warfare
  • Hood, J., Bougher, B., Theriault, J., Advanced Passive Processing – What are we missing?
  • Theriault, J., Hood, J., Collison, N., Sorting through the clutter: Improved Operator Decision Aids
Published by on Sep 10th, 2010 Posted in Conference, Technical

Review/Inventory of Active Acoustic Methods and Technologies for Marine Mammal Monitoring

DRDC Atlantic in partnership with Akoostix has been awarded a contract to conduct a survey and review of active acoustic monitoring (AAM) technologies and methods. The contract, funded by the Joint Oil and Gas Industry Programme (JIP) on Sound and Marine Life, has been motivated by increasing regulatory requirements for oil and gas companies to monitor marine mammals at sea during exploration and production (E&P) activities, in particular those that generate significant amounts of acoustic energy. AAM is being investigated as a way of addressing the shortcomings of other monitoring methods, such as visual and passive acoustic monitoring, which are less effective in low visibility situations and when mammals are not vocalizing.

Published by on Oct 22nd, 2008 Posted in Contract Award, Subcontract

Spring Update – 2008

Akoostix announced today that it has exceeded its previous year’s sales less then seven months into its fiscal year. Current year sales include a number of milestones:

  • Largest single contract to date (in value),
  • First international customer, and,
  • First non-defence customer; all of which have resulted in,
  • A new, full-time employee.

The scope of this year’s work includes research trial support, system development, and advanced prototype development across:

  • Torpedo defence,
  • Active multistatics,
  • Autonomous surveillance,
  • Underwater communications, and,
  • Marine mammal monitoring / environmental mitigation.

This project work will provide solutions to both the defence and oil and gas industries.

Published by on Jan 24th, 2008 Posted in Update

Trials Support – Contract Award

It was announced today that Akoostix Inc. has been awarded additional funding to provide increased trial support for the Marine Mammal Mitigation / Towed Array and Sonobuoy Multistatic Trials. Akoostix Inc. will be supplying a second person to provide trial planning, data gathering, and acoustic analysis expertise to augment DRDC scientists during the trials. These events will take place in the Caribbean between January and February 2007.

Published by on Dec 22nd, 2006 Posted in Contract Award

Marine Mammal Mitigation – Contract Award

Akoostix Inc. announced today that it has won a competitive bid for support to the Marine Mammal Mitigation / Towed Array and Sonobuoy Multistatic Trials. This work will involve upgrading the Acoustic Subsystem, a module used in the Slocum Glider and Stealth Buoy, to perform detection of marine mammal vocalizations and integration of data from detections into the Acoustic Cetacean Detection Capability (ACDC) workstation. These efforts will support improved environmental mitigation during active sonar trials. It will also involve developing data interfaces between sea trial data gathering equipment and STAR (Software Tools for Analysis and Research) via DRDC Data Servers. This contract will culminate in approximately 3 weeks worth of sea trials in the Caribbean in early 2007.

Published by on Nov 29th, 2006 Posted in Contract Award